Darkness. 

Total darkness. 

Crouching in the corner of this darkness, so cold and silent. 

My senses do not obey. 

Tic, 

tok, 

tic, 

the sound of a clock somewhere. 

I haven’t slept in days because of them. Those vile foul creatures, hurting, torturing me. I have waited so long for 

someone, 

something 

to rescue me. 

So exhausted, I let sleep take me over. 

Just as I close my eyes, the door busted open, 

flooding the darkness with light. 

A figure ran to me, hugging me, saying, 

"It’s all right, I have you now, none of them will get you.”

                                                            I never felt safer in the arms of a murderer.